NOW YOU SEE ME 3 Announced One Year Before Sequel is Released

Variety reports NOW YOU SEE ME 3, the third installment of the NOW YOU SEE ME series has already begun development, a year before the NOW YOU SEE ME sequel is set to be released.

On Friday, the CEO of Lionsgate, Jon Feltheimer, disclosed the NOW YOU SEE ME 3 announcement. "We've already begun early planning for 'Now You See Me 3,'" he said.

Feltheimer also made known that the production of NOW YOU SEE ME: SECOND ACT has wrapped. The sequel will be directed by Jon M. Chu and will feature returning stars Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo,Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Morgan Freeman. It is set to hit theaters on June 10, 2016.

About Now You See Me 2:

One year after the outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface in Now You See Me 2 only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

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